"[1170] Fitz-Stephen lost no time in preparing for the attack [of
Wexford]; and lining the trenches with those of his troops who wore
armour, while the archers were posted so as to command the advanced
towers, an assault was made on the walls with loud cries and
desperate vigour. But the townsmen were ready to stand on their
defence, and casting down from the battlements large stones and
beams, repulsed the attack for a while, and caused numerous losses.
Among the wounded was Robert de Barri, a young soldier, who, inflamed
with ardent valour, and dauntless in the face of death, was among the
first who scaled the walls; but being struck upon his helmet by a
great stone, and falling headlong into the ditch below, narrowly
escaped with his life, his comrades with some difficulty drawing him
out. Sixteen years afterwards all his jaw-teeth fell out from the
effects of this stroke, and, what is more strange, new teeth grew in
their places."